Mary Smith Benton (1835–1857)
Mary Smith Green (1857–1919)
1835–1919
Scottish-born emigrant to Australia. Daughter of William Benton, blacksmith, and his wife Margaret Joss of Keig, Aberdeenshire. Married John Green in Keig in 1857. Emigrated to Australia in 1858; John Green became superintendent of Coranderrk Aboriginal Station. Supervised the care of orphans at Coranderrk, 1863–74. Supplied answers to CD’s queries on expression.
Sources
Barwick 1972.
Giordano Nanni and Andrea James, Coranderrk: we will show the country (Canberra, ACT: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2013)
Scotland old parish registers births 205/20 49 Keig (Scotlandspeople.gov.uk, accessed 5 September 2019)
Scotland statutory marriages 1857 205/3 (Scotlandspeople.gov.uk, accessed 5 September 2019)
Bibliography
Barwick, Diane. 1972. Coranderrk and Cumeroogunga: pioneers and policy. In Opportunity and response: case studies in economic development, edited by Trude Scarlett Epstein and David H. Penny. London: C. Hurst & Company.
